jones
Captain Serious
Yea fair enough on Fabinho. Still you posted an incorrect age for VVD and conveniently forgot about Alisson who's probably after Salah their most important signing.Fabinho was 24 when he signed for Liverpool actually. Salah 25, Mane 24, Robertson 23, Wijnaldum 25, Firmino 23. I’m spot on man, you’ve spoken about things aside from my point. Talking about roid regime, overpriced at the time (which ended up being a bargain) and an incorrect age for Fabinho.
My point isn’t about how well known they are. In fact, people of that age bracket are pretty well known players, but there’s a level to go up in a new environment. Unknowns would usually be the first bracket I mentioned where players are much more raw.
Never said it was the only way to success. But it’s a great way to success for the reason I explained; timeline and hitting it big quickly if you get it right (while also having a long runway of success as we have seen with Liverpool).
Also, football has changed? You’re talking about things in the past (not surprised with you) . The transfer window and the way it works has changed massively over the last 10-15 years. In the Banter Era we could sign these random unknown players from France uncontested for peanuts. These days there’s way more money in football and also across the PL. You’re getting really raw players going for crazy money.
The bracket of players I speak about are very well known in today’s world, and sometimes come expensive. But it’s the best age bracket to buy at imo (it’s where I think the highest frequency of signings a club like us or Liverpool should be making). If you have an immediate need for them in the starting XI that is.
As I mentioned above, look at how we elevated ourselves after the couple years of signing the likes of Ødegaard Gabriel and White. And they’re still young.
Anyways my point you skipped over is Liverpool are not the first club to go after players just about to hit their prime.
